Monday, December 31, 2012

This year our family's Christmas tree had a Doctor Who theme! We were inspired by a gift of Doctor Who character popsicle stick puppets & Christmas ornaments made by my friend Karen (who also makes Doctor Who bento lunches, see my post featuring her blog, What's In Our Lunch Bags).

It was such fun to decorate! I turned an ordinary angel tree topper into a Weeping Angel (DIY instructions in this post), added blue lights, TARDIS lights, the ornaments from Karen & a few more, a little bit of blue ribbon and... voilà!

You can see the ornaments better with the lights off. Besides the DW ornaments, I stuck to stars and snowflakes, as suggested by my 10 year old, "because there are always stars in space and there's always snow in the Christmas specials" :)

There's also a red ball with a fez drawn on it, and she made popsicle stick figures of pretty much every major character. Some are pointed out in the photo but some are around the sides, and some didn't make it on to the tree (I ran out of the ribbon I was tying them to the branches with).

Poor Ood Sigma didn't make it on to the tree, but he's here to show you what the character ornaments look like in popsicle stick puppet form, before a scrap of wired ribbon turned them into ornaments like this one of Amy Pond:

We already had plenty of star & snowflake ornaments, but I bought this one anyways; as soon as I saw it I thought of the Empress Racnoss' Webstar:

My friend Kathy sent me a surprise Christmas gift of ornaments she painted herself. One was this Van Gogh-style TARDIS one, gorgeous! And she didn't even know that "Vincent and the Doctor" is one of my favourite episodes!

In fact, when she painted it, she had no idea I was doing a Doctor Who themed tree!

I wasn't sure about the idea myself. I thought the kidlets might miss having our usual ornaments and colourful lights... but they loved it! Love my little Whovians ♥

The TARDIS lights (from ThinkGeek) come on white wire, like these we have hanging outside, but the little TARDISes snap off for changing the bulbs, so I just snapped them over a set of lights on green wire to blend in with the tree.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

To help my new-to-Who friends, some of whom are a little confused, I've made a chart showing the order to watch which episode & special of Doctor Who, Torchwood, & The Sarah Jane Adventures ... a sort of Whovian Guide for the Newvian... as best as I can figure :)

Order to Watch Doctor Who, Torchwood, & The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Series 19th Doctor & Rose Tyler
1. Rose
2. The End of the World
3. The Unquiet Dead
4. Aliens of London
5. World War 3
6. Dalek
7. The Long Game
8. Father's Day
9. The Empty Child
10. The Doctor Dances
11. Boom Town
12. Bad Wolf
13. The Parting of the Ways

Christmas Special10th Doctor & Rose Tyler
Christmas Invasion

Doctor Who Series 210th Doctor & Rose Tyler
1. New Earth
2. Tooth and Claw
3. School Reunion
4. The Girl in the Fireplace
5. Rise of the Cybermen
6. The Age of Steel
7. The Idiot's Lantern
8. The Impossible Planet
9. The Satan Pit
10. Love & Monsters
11. Fear Her
12. Army of Ghosts
13. Doomsday

Events at the end of Doctor Who Series 2 take place prior to Torchwood Series 1

Christmas Special 10th Doctor & Donna Noble
The Runaway Bride

Torchwood Series 1
1. Everything Changes
2. Day One

Events in Doctor Who Series 2 take place prior to The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Series 410th Doctor & Donna Noble
1. Partners in Crime
2. The Fires of Pompeii
3. Planet of the Ood
4. The Sontaran Stratagem
5. The Poison Sky

4. Meat
5. Adam
6. Reset
7. Dead Man Walking
8. A Day in the Death
9. Something Borrowed
10. From Out of the Rain

5. & 6. Warriors of Kudlak
7. & 8.
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

6. The Doctor's Daughter
7. The Unicorn and the Wasp
8. Silence in the Library
9. Forest of the Dead
10. Midnight
11. Turn Left

11. Adrift
12. Fragments
13. Exit Wounds

9. & 10. The Lost Boy
(see note below)

12. The Stolen Earth
13. Journey's End

<-- DW / TW crossoverEvents at the end of Torchwood series 2 take place before the final 2 episodes of DW Series 4

<-- DW / SJA crossover.Events in the final 2 episodes of SJA (take place AFTER the final 2 episodes of DW Series 4

Christmas Special10th Doctor
The Next Doctor

Easter Special10th Doctor
Planet of the Dead

Torchwood : Children of the Earth
Mini-series of 5 episodes titled
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 22-part episodes
1. 2. The Last Sontaran
3. 4. The Day of the Clown5. 6. Secrets of the Stars
7. 8. The Mark of the Berserker
9. 10. The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
11. 12. Enemy of the Bane

Autumn Special10th Doctor
The Waters of Mars

Episodes 5 & 6 of the Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3, "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith", take place before the Doctor Who Christmas Special "End of Time part 1"

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 32-part episodes1. 2. Prisoner of the Judoon
3. 4. The Mad Woman in the Attic
5. 6. The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

ChristmasSpecial
The End of Time part 1

New Years Special
The End of Time part 2

7. 8. The Eternity Trap
9. 10. Mona Lisa's Revenge
The Gift

Doctor Who Series 511th Doctor & Amy Pond
1. The Eleventh Hour
2. The Beast Below
3. Victory of the Daleks
4. The Time of Angels
5. Flesh and Stone
6. The Vampires of Venice

Doctor Who Series 611th Doctor & Amy Pond
1. The Impossible Astronaut
2. Day of the Moon
3. The Curse of the Black Spot
4. The Doctor's Wife
5. The Rebel Flesh
6. The Almost People
7. A Good Man Goes To War
8. Let's Kill Hitler
9. Night Terrors
10. The Girl Who Waited
11. The God Complex

Torchwood : Miracle Day
1. The New World
2. Rendition
3. Dead of Night
4. Eascape to L.A.
5. The Categories of Life
6. The Middle Men
7. Immortal Sins
8. End of the Road
9. The Gathering
10. The Blood Line

12. Closing Time
13. The Wedding of River Song

The events in Miracle Day appear to take place and be resolved prior to the end of episode 11 of DW Series 6

Sarah Jane Adventures Series 52-part episodesSky
The Curse of Clyde Langer
The Man Who Never Was

Christmas Special11th Doctor
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

Doctor Who Series 7
Part 111th Doctor & Amy Pond
1. Asylum of the Daleks
2. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
3. A Town Called Mercy
4. The Power of Three
5. The Angels Take Manhattan

Christmas Special11th Doctor
The Snowmen

Doctor Who Series 7
Part 211th Doctor & Clara
6. The Bells of Saint John
7. The Rings of Akhaten
8. Cold War
9. Hide
10. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
11. The Crimson Horror
12. Nightmare in Silver
13. The Name of the Doctor

50th Anniversary Prequelmini webisode
The Night of the Doctor

50th Anniversary Special
The Day of the Doctor

Christmas Special11th Doctor
The Time of the Doctor

Last Updated June 2015
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I am a happy nerd girl tonight, after reading Doctor Who/Star Trek: The Next Generation - Assimilation2 #1.I had to read it on both my MacBook and my iPhone just because :)

My inner collector resisted the urge to possess the paper book and got the eComic - which although it lacks that fresh ink smell, lacks absolutely nothing else. The full-colour artwork is gorgeous. The characters ring true; I could even hear their voices in my head - well, the Doctor's, Amy's & Rory's anyways. This issue was more Whovian than Trekker, but, there are 8 in the series, perhaps the next one will be a little more Trekkish. I'm sure I'll be equally pleased either way :)

Monday, June 4, 2012

I got a new t-shirt today. And discovered how much I suck at the iPhone self-snap. I must lack some sort of basic skill. Voilà, c'est moi, Nerd Girl, et mon t-shirt:

Here are some t-shirt designs I missed out on and want ... so if any of you lovely readers (and there are currently 4 of you!) sees one... I'd love for you to let me know! Leave a comment, I'll get an e-mail :)

Friday, June 1, 2012

My friends Karen, Jenn and I get up to some pretty silly geeky conversations late at night; a recent one was discussing songs appropriate for a DW/TW playlist, and sharing DW/TW-themed YouTube music videos. Somehow we didn't come across this little gem that night - even though the very song came up... but one of Karen's friends shared it on her Facebook wall today - thank you Matthew!

I'd love to know why videos are so wonky on my blog as compared to on YouTube...

Oh, and Karen did make a playlist! If you must have it, email me & I'll see if she'll share :)

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Edible Adipose, cheese Weeping Angels, and yogurt bow ties, oh my! Through my bento blog, I've become friends with the most excellent bento maker and sci fi kindred spirit, Karen, the talented blogger behind *What's in Our Lunchbags? She recently did a series of Doctor Who themed lunches that must be seen and shared! I made a collage (for easy pinning) of some of my favourites (in no particular order) ...

And that's not all of them! Click here to see more of her Doctor Who lunches! Karen's made heaps of other geek homage bentos, but this post is about her DW ones so you can poke around and discover the rest yourself :) She also pins them all (and more) on her Pinterest board - so go on, repin and share the geeky goodness!

Somehow I have never seen this until recently! I must watch it a lot to make up for lost time :)
I will also watch it whenever I need to feel a little happier. I don't think it would be possible to watch it and not smile!

FYI - It's so much sharper if you click through and watch it on YouTube ;) I've no idea why!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

I recently got an iPhone after having a Droid for 2 years. My Droid had all DW images and sounds, and I miss them! I loved getting a text unexpectedly and being startled by a Dalek voice - "Exterminate!" I even had a sonic screwdriver flashlight app :) I plan to customize the iPhone similarly - starting with my new lock screen!

I got the image from Science Doll. She tweaked it perfectly - I love it ! Now, to find the perfect TARDIS console image for the wallpaper...

Update March 2014
I finally got around to updating my phone to iOS 7 - then realized my TARDIS lock screen now looked a little off. But no worries, Science Doll was way ahead of me --> TARDIS Lock & Home screens for iOS 7 ♥♥